Mounting a PS3 Drive under linux ???

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Mounting a PS3 Drive under linux ???

Postby dogdaynoon » 05 Apr 2011, 22:47

I would like to pull out my PS3's HDD and put it in a linux box and read the contents.
Everywhere I go I get this answer "NO", and "Ps3 drive is encrypted so it can only be viewed on that particular system"....
Is this possible.
I was referenced to Paul and ppietro. I know that there is infinite wisdom here because I have used it in the past.
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So how bout it guys, what is the best way to read the contents of my PS3's HDD without the use of my (or any) PS3?
I have a debian box right now but it would be super easy to throw ubutu or YDL on there...
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Re: Mounting a PS3 Drive under linux ???

Postby billb » 06 Apr 2011, 00:50

I'm not aware of any way to do that, and yes the drive is encrypted. If OtherOS is installed on the drive, I believe that's stored at the end and not encrypted, so you could use something like dd to read the last 10GB (or whatever the OtherOS partition size). I haven't actually tried this myself, though, and it doesn't sound like what you're after.
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Re: Mounting a PS3 Drive under linux ???

Postby ppietro » 06 Apr 2011, 03:44

dogdaynoon wrote:I would like to pull out my PS3's HDD and put it in a linux box and read the contents.
Everywhere I go I get this answer "NO", and "Ps3 drive is encrypted so it can only be viewed on that particular system"....


Heh - I know where this is going....

dogdaynoon wrote:Is this possible.


Nope. The PS3 drive is encrypted and can only be viewed on that particular system. I don't think it's even using PC partition tables, to be honest - although I can't confirm that.

The only thing that you can view from your PC is an OtherOS partition - if you created one.

Unfortunately, it's usually just stuck on the end of the PS3 partition, so you'd have to use dd to copy it to a new drive - the Partition table would be in the wrong location if you just plugged the drive into a PC.

I wrote a little about it here:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7266&p=38196#p38196

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